slaughtering animals

"If Animals Could Judge by Staudinger + Franke

Slaughtering Animals Have you ever imagined about how animals have been treating raised in factory farms? As you can see, Industries are slaughtering animals for food. In America, killing animals is permittable for human consumption. This world is so cruel that animals have to suffer from killing, but there is another way to produce meat by making meat in the lab, and it is called lab-grown. To accomplish this alternative, the government needs to help scientists complete this process because scientists do not have the technology to produce meat immediately yet. However, people that are carnivores are not going to agree with this process because they are not familiar with the lab-grown. Some people will accept this process to help animals suffering from killing. To end this abusing animal, people should admit and eat lab-grown meat or stop eating meat entirely and become vegan instead.

Governments and industries should stop abusing animals. As indicated by Peter Singer, "Castration, the separation of mother and young, the breaking up of herds, branding, transporting, slaughterhouse handling, and finally the moment of slaughter itself- all of these are likely to involve suffering and do not take animals' interests into account" (214). The problem of abusing animals throughout their lives is that animals have to live in factory farms until it is their time to slaughter. It is disheartening to see how animals are treated and abused in factory farms. As indicated by Yuval Noah Harari, "Yet the agricultural revolution created completely new kinds of suffering, ones that only worsened with the passing of the generations" (234). Animals are getting sick in factory farms because the place is disgusting, and they are all squeezed together. Animals forced to live in factory farms, and they are not comfortable because they are all staying in a small area. Sorrowfully, they do not have a chance, but to deal with it. They want to live peacefully without interrupting them, and animals and humans are similar to each other because they have emotions. Animals also want to live in a safe place that they can move comfortably and sleep well without worrying themselves to get killed.

There is another way to make meat by making it in the lab. As indicated by G. Owen Schaefer, "The meat is made by first taking a muscle sample from an animal. Technicians collect stem cells from the tissue, multiply them dramatically and allow them to differentiate into primitive fibers that then bulk up to form muscle tissue" (Schaefer). Scientists need to produce meat by using technology because it is less harmful to animals, and animals will no longer suffer from killing. Animals need a break from being slaughtered for food. Seeing the animals getting killed for food is not acceptable, and the governments need to help scientists by contributing new fast technology to them. As indicated by Charlotte Hawks, "The process of making a hamburger patty takes about nine weeks" (Hawks). They already experimented about making meat in the lab, and it went well; however, the problem is that it is challenging to grow meat in the lab because the technology is not fast enough to make it.

As indicated by Robert Kunzig, "the way to create an alternative that meat-eaters will eat may be to grow synthetic meat locally on a small scale" (307). People that are carnivores are not going to agree with this idea about making meat in the lab because we have different perspectives when it comes to this process. Scientists have already announced the new way how to make meat by producing meat in the lab. The lab-grown is new to people, and most of them are not familiar with this at all because this meat is not commercially available yet. I understand if people do not trust the meat from the lab in the beginning because it takes time for people will accept this process. People want to make sure that it is safe to eat meat from the lab without harmful themselves.

If people that are carnivores do not like the idea about the lab-grown, they have no choice but to eat a plant-based diet instead. As indicated by Michael Heinrich, "The results clearly showed that both the ratio between vegetables and meat consumption as well as the ratio between the amount of energy from vegetables and animal products can be used successfully to evaluate the dietary pattern related to cancer risk" (Heinrich). People should start eating vegetables because eating extremely meat can risk our health from consuming red meats in particular. Consuming vegetables every day is good for our health because plants protect our body from illnesses, and it is an excellent idea to start consuming vegetables, so animals do not suffer anymore from slaughtering.

 "Animals" by Peter Zembol 

 This world is so cruel that animals have to suffer from slaughtering for food. Animals do not deserve this because animals and humans have the same similarity with each other. Both of them have feelings, and they want to live peacefully. It is conceivable to make meat in the lab since they previously tried it. To achieve this goal, governments and scientists need to help each other to make meat by using new technology that can make meat immediately. It is challenging to produce meat in the lab if technology cannot make it faster because it is going to take longer to complete this process. That is why scientists need help from governments because they cannot afford to buy new technology. It is an extraordinary thought to do this procedure since we would prefer not to end animals' lives for nourishment. People that are carnivores are not going to agree with this idea because they will think that it is not safe to eat the meat from the lab. However, if they worry about animals are getting slaughtered in factory farms, they should start eating vegetables or eating meat from the lab because it is the best way to end murdering animals than killing them. We do not want to see that animals have to suffer from slaughtering even though they did not choose to live like a slave. 

Works Cited

Harari, Yuval Noah. “Industrial Farming Is One of the Worst Crimes in History.” Food Matters,                        edited by Bauer, Holly Bauer, Bedform/St.Martin’s, 2017, pp. 233-238. 

Hawks, Charlotte. “How close are we to a hamburger grown in a lab?” CNN health, CNN health, 8                  Mar. 2018, www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/health/clean-in-vitro-meat-food/index.html. Accessed                10 Dec. 2019. 

Heinrich, Michael, et al. “A Vegetable to Meat Consumption Ratio as a Relevant Factor Determining                Cancer Preventive Diet” Local Mediterranean Food Plants and Nutraceuticals, Karger,                        (n.d.), www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/95211. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019. 

Kunzig, Robert. “Test-Tube Meat: Have Your Pig and Eat It too.” Food Matters, edited by Bauer,                       Holly Bauer, Bedform/St.Martin’s, 2017, pp. 307-310. 

Schaefer, Owen. “Lab-Grown Meat” Scientific American, Scientific American, 14 Sept. 2018,                           www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019. 

Singer, Peter. “Equality for animals.” Food Matters, edited by Bauer, Holly Bauer,                                               Bedform/St.Martin’s, 2017, pp. 212-216.

"Animals" by Peter Zembol is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

"If Animals Could Judge" by Staudinger + Franke is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0